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I’m going to show you
in Windows 10

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how to remove your admin privileges
and change you to a standard user.

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If we go down here

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and click User accounts,

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click on User accounts,

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then click on
Manage another account.

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Now, what I'm assuming is that
you are currently an administrator.

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If you're not an administrator,
then you don't need to change it.

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In order to remove
your admin rights,

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we need to create
another user first,

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give them admin rights and then
remove your rights.

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That's the first thing
we want to do.

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We want to add a new user.

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Click on Add someone
else to this PC.

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Now, it's up to you but you can setup
your Windows Microsoft integration.

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I don't recommend you do that,

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but that's entirely up to you.

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Here I'm going to click
on this one.

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And because I don’t want
the integration,

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I'm going to click on Add a user
without Microsoft Account.

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Here I need to enter
my username.

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I'm going to enter Bob, or Bobo.

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I'm not going to call this admin
or administrator account

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because if you do that
it can give away information

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as to the account being an administrator
and can help a hacker.

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It doesn’t really make
much difference,

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but it's sometimes better just to call it
something other than admin.

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Then click Next.

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Now we need to make this new
account an administrator.

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If we return back to here,

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actually you'll see
that Bob isn't there,

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but if you click Refresh,
he should appear, but he's not.

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Let's go to user accounts

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and Manage another account,

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and there we do see Bob.

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If we click on Bob, and we click on
Change the account type,

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Change to administrator,

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Change account type,

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Manage another account,

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now we can see that Bob
is now an administrator.

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We're now going to remove privileges
from our own account.

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We click on our own account.

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Change the account type,

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Change to standard,

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Change account type,

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Manage another account,

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this is now a standard user
or a local account as it's called,

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and Bob is an administrator.

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We'll use Bob only for our
specific administrating tasks

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and we use our regular account
for everything else.

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I would also recommend
you disable

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or delete any other
accounts you don't use

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and remove admin privileges

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from all other accounts apart from
the one special one that you use,

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just for administrative tasks.

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If you know in advance that you need
to run something as an administrator,

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that's quite simple.

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You just right click on it
and Run as administrator.

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And then you'll be prompted
for a username and password

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for the admin account
which you can put in.

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Obviously, never run anything as an
administrator that you don't trust.